Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1982 [PAGE 82]

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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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Accordingly, the president of the University, with the concurrence of the appropriate administrative officers, recommends adoption of the following resolution conveying the newly defined three-acre site to John Wood Community College. (This action is necessitated by the existence of a roadway easement on the three-acre site. John Wood Community College plans to begin construction of a building of approximately 10,500 net square feet in October 1980.)

Resolution Authorizing Conveyance of Three Acres of Land in Pike County, Illinois

Whereas, The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois at its meeting on May 16, 1979, authorized an agreement with John Wood Community College and the conveyance to it of three acres of land pursuant to the terms of the agreement upon title to certain property in Pike County, Illinois, being acquired by the University and subject to legislation being enacted authorizing the conveyance; and Whereas, Public Act 81-354 was enacted by the 81st General Assembly authorizing the conveyance without monetary consideration of a three-acre tract described therein subject to funds being appropriated to the Capital Development Board for the planning and construction by the College of an Extension Center Building for use in conjunction with the Western Illinois Area Agricultural Research and Demonstration Center and the Governor approving the expenditure of the appropriated funds as provided in Section 7 of the Capital Development Board Act of 1972; and Whereas, in planning the Extension Center Building the College determined that due to an easement restriction the site would not adequately accommodate the proposed building and requested that the site be redesignated approximately forty feet west and the University is agreeable to such change. Now Therefore Be It, and It Hereby Is, Resolved by T h e Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois, a public corporation of the State of Illinois, that the comptroller and secretary of this corporation be, and they hereby are, authorized and directed, subject to and in pursuance of the terms and conditions of said agreement, to execute, acknowledge, and deliver, in the name, and in behalf of, this corporation and under its corporate seal, a Warranty Deed and such other documents in connection therewith as said comptroller and secretary may deem necessary or desirable in order to convey to the Board of Trustees of Community College District No. 539, counties of Adams, Pike, Hancock, Calhoun and Schuyler, and State of Illinois, popularly known as John Wood Community College, title to the following-described property, viz: A tract of land lying in the Northeast Quarter of Section Fourteen (14), in Township Three (3) South of the Base Line, and in Range Four (4) West of the Fourth Principal Meridian (Fairmount Township), Pike County, Illinois, and being more fully described as follows: Commencing at the Southeast corner of the Northeast Quarter of Section Fourteen (14), in Township Three (3) South of the Base Line and in Range Four (4) West of the Fourth Principal Meridian; thence North 90 degrees 00 minutes and 00 seconds West along the South line of the Northeast Quarter of said Section Fourteen (14) a distance of one thousand two hundred ninety and two hundredths (1,290.02) feet; thence North 0 degrees, 00 minutes and 00 seconds East a distance of five hundred forty (540) feet to a point, said point being the true point of beginning; thence continuing North 00 degree, 00 minutes and 00 seconds East a distance of three hundred one and twenty-four hundredths (301.24) feet to a point on the South right-of-way line of Illinois Route # 1 0 4 ; thence South 88 degrees, 02 minutes and 28 seconds East along said South right-